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BOSTON An ineffective power play and a stagnant attack ruined the Flyers' season opener Wednesday night at TD Garden. So did Chris Kelly. With 1 minute, 51 seconds left in regulation, Kelly's goal gave the Boston Bruins a 2-1 win before a frenzied crowd. Adam McQuaid's shot went off goalie Steve Mason's glove and fluttered into the air before dropping near the crease, where Kelly tapped it into the net to snap a 1-1 tie. The Flyers have lost three straight season openers for the first time since 1991. The Flyers tied it with 15:41 remaining when Sean Couturier, stationed in front, tipped in Jake Voracek's spin-around pass from the right circle. With 6:01 to go,...

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BOSTON An ineffective power play and a stagnant attack ruined the Flyers' season opener Wednesday night at TD Garden. So did Chris Kelly. With 1 minute, 51 seconds left in regulation, Kelly's goal gave the Boston Bruins a 2-1 win before a frenzied...

PHILADELPHIA This should have been a mismatch. Flyers goalie Rob Zepp, 33, was the netminder for the minor-league Phantoms this time last week. But there he was Saturday afternoon staring down the Nashville Predators and their stellar goalie,...

PHILADELPHIA After losing two straight home games to NHL lightweights, the Flyers completed a weekend sweep of league powers on Sunday, defeating the Washington Capitals, 3-2, at the Wells Fargo Center and inching closer in the playoff race. ...

In the most unlikely of comebacks, the Columbus Blue Jackets relied on the most unlikely of goal scorers. Artem Anisimov, without a goal in his last 21 games, scored 2:17 into overtime to give the Blue Jackets a 4-3 come-from-behind win over the...

PHILADELPHIA For the Flyers, the Great Playoff Push was stalled Tuesday night by an old nemesis, Columbus. Despite getting outshot by 44-25, Columbus ended the Flyers nine-game points streak with a 5-2 win at the Wells Fargo Center. It was the...

BUFFALO, N.Y. Michael Raffl says he isn't quite 100 percent and that he is still getting his wind back after a long bout with pneumonia. On Sunday night, however, he breathed life into the Flyers' playoff hopes. Playing in his first game since...

COLUMBUS, Ohio For the second straight game, the Flyers blew a third-period lead and lost on the road. This time, they coughed up a 3-1 advantage en route to a 4-3 overtime defeat to Columbus at Nationwide Arena on Friday night. Artem Anisimov's...

WASHINGTON An injury to Steve Mason who has been playing as well as any NHL goalie recently overshadowed the Flyers' gritty 3-1 win over the Washington Capitals Sunday at the Verizon Center. The Flyers took a 2-1 lead when Wayne Simmonds took...

The San Francisco Giants fan who threw a banana that landed near Baltimore Orioles outfielder Adam Jones on Sunday insisted that incident was not racially motivated.
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The new video and song fell painfully flat, but the light show was nifty and the introductions brimmed with rah-rah enthusiasm before the Kings' first game at Staples Center this season.
The festivities — mercifully — were brief, but that wasn't the only...

Times columnist Helene Elliott rates the pluses and minuses in the NHL from the previous week:
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+ Despite being plagued by injuries — they lost four of their top six defensemen at one point — the Pittsburgh Penguins have won 12 of their last 14...

Adam Jones’ tweets about having a banana thrown at him Sunday by a fan at AT&T Park have made the incident a national topic of conversation, and the Giants today issued an apology to the Orioles center fielder. (If you missed any of the details...